Labour member wins IPSO complaint against Jewish Chronicle after telling newspaper he is not a Holocaust denier

'A Labour member has won a complaint against the Jewish Chronicle after the newspaper ran an article that claimed he was a Holocaust denier, which he refuted.

The Chronicle reported on 4 February that Mike Sivier had made “‘anti-Semitic’ remarks about Jews and Zionism”

It said Sivier had been readmitted to the Labour party after being suspended last year over the remarks, which it said included a “claim that he could not comment on whether thousands or millions of Jews died in the Holocaust he said ‘I don’t know’” [sic].

Sivier complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that this was a misleading account of something he had written on his website in response to a comment listing incidents of anti-Semitism on the left.

The commenter had referred to a leaflet which he said omitted Jews from a list of Holocaust survivors and put the number of deaths from the genocide at thousands rather than millions.'